Natives

Examples

• In those days the natives around these forests (who were half Indian and half Negro) happened to find some of this juice sticking on the tree. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• When this date approaches bands of natives set out from their primitive homes and go, in many instances, hundreds of miles into the forest lowlands. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They are natives of the southeast of Asia and are remarkable for their pugnacious propensities. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They saw no signs of natives nor were they molested by wild beasts. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• On these the natives raise melons, cucumbers and other vegetables which need much water. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Is wounded with an arrow by one of the natives. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Here the natives work under pleasant climatic conditions and the trees under cultivation grow better and yield better than in the forest. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• My dear Vermont, you natives up by the North Pole set an extravagant value on time! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I found some shellfish on the shore, and ate them raw, not daring to kindle a fire, for fear of being discovered by the natives. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The natives build their huts out of small poles covered with palm thatch and live in little colonies while the rubber harvest is going on. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Let us see the natives in their aboriginal condition. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• In Australia the problem of the transmission to the natives of various diseases, even by Europeans in apparent health, confronted his intelligence. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• On the fourth day, venturing out early a little too far, I saw twenty or thirty natives upon a height not above five hundred yards from me. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• It MUST be very good of Mrs. Jellyby to take such pains about a scheme for the benefit of natives--and yet--Peepy and the housekeeping! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He is left on shore, is seized by one of the natives, and carried to a farmer's house. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• How is Rubber Gathered by the Natives? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Good rope was made also by the old Peruvians, by the South Sea Islanders, and by the natives of many other regions. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• After having established themselves in camp the natives take up their monotonous round, which is followed day after day as long as the rubber trees continue to yield their valuable sap. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The natives were not yet in sight, though he could plainly hear them approaching across the plantation. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• They discovered the Philippines, and here Magellan was killed in a fight with the natives. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I walked to the city without any concern, being clad like one of the natives, and sufficiently instructed to converse with them. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• But we astonished the natives of that country. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There was an American by the name of Charles Goodyear who had heard how the natives of the rubber-growing countries used this milky juice in many ways for their own benefit. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• When our planters arrived, they purchased the lands of the natives, without putting king or parliament to any expense. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• They could see natives in the fields, and others moving in and out of the village gate. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The natives of South America soon discovered that the white man was willing to pay them beads and other trinkets for chunks of this rubber, so they became active in gathering it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Man keeps the natives of many climates in the same country. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• To defend them from the barbarous natives, it is necessary that the place where they are deposited should be in some measure fortified. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The natives filed up the street, four of them bearing the dead body of Kulonga. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• How does strange gentleman spect to know more about a country dan de natives born and raised? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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